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Cui Yongyuan and his battle with "Cell Phone"
The buzz at the box office in early 2004 was Feng Xiaogang's "Cell Phone", a movie that showed all too clearly the dangers of mobile phone technology when trying to maintain a relationship.
To recap the film: it follows the life of a famous TV talk show host (Yan Shouyi), and his love affair. Yan's marriage is destroyed when his affair with a young journalist is exposed who ends up trapping and humiliating Yan in a complex mesh of text messages and mobile phone conversations. Yan is succeeded as host of his TV program by another woman, also involved in the mobile phone mishap.
In direct response to the media's probing questions following the movie release, Cui was quick to show his animosity towards director Feng Xiaogang. He claimed that Feng approached him years ago for movie ideas, and Cui willingly shared with him his retirement story, but had no intention to have what has been presumed to be his private life, made public in a film. Since "Cell Phone's" debut, Cui has been on the run from the paparazzi. One persistent reporter shouted: "can you dare say you've been faithful to your wife?" to which Cui lost his temper in front of numerous flashing cameras and TV film crews. (Sina.com.cn)
In response to Cui's cutting criticism, Feng simply replied, "Now people have the liberty of free speech". (Sina.com.cn) Unfortunately for Cui, and fortunately for Feng, the controversy involving the likeness of the film's plot to Cui's life has meant that "Cell Phone" has been a massive success at the box office. Cui will have to ride out the popularity of the film before the paparazzi stop nipping at his heels. |
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